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Trump Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself

• thisrod 10y ago
  The computing part of this sounds fairly straightforward to me; if the psychological things described in the article are real, then no doubt you would be able to measure and exploit them in the ways described. But the psychology strikes me as black magic. Is anyone qualified to comment on how plausible it is?
• fowlerpower 10y ago
  So this is very intriguing. The whole time while I'm reading this, and it's a good piece, I can't help but think if I'm reading some fake news? Is this for real? I for one hate this whole I'll give you all my private info for a chance to use your free services and tools. I don't know how others feel.
  • mattlevan 10y ago
    After reading, I think it's obvious that the author has seriously overestimated the impact of the technology. It could have had as great an effect as the author's tone implies but I'm not sure the evidence is available.
• cplanas 10y ago
  If you feel like the article is too long, you can watch this 11 minutes presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Dd5aVXLCc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Dd5aVXLCc. It summarizes their methodology. I took the presentation link from the article.
• ha8o8le 10y ago
  This seems suspect. This article seems to poke some holes: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-08/no-big-data-didn-t-win-the-u-s-election https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-08/no-big-da...